Space Time WG First Workshop Final Report

Ideas from the first workshop

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-20111025/

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-usecase-20111025/

http://storify.com/iridium/nedimah-space-and-time-syposium

Project Objectives

1. A map visualizing the use of digital research across Europe (ie, documenting practice);

2. An ontology of digital research methods;

3. A collaborative, interactive online forum for the European community of practitioners active in this area.

First Event - 30 November 2011 - Ravensbourne College, London, Rms 804-5

Theme: Mapping the Future Activities of the Space Time Working Group - Is everything fuzzy, imprecise and vague?

Objective:

To determine next steps and ways in which the working group can coordinate activities to achieve project objectives.

This workshop will focus on conceptual approaches to space and time, as opposed to geometric and coordinate based-methods. Such approaches have proven useful in contexts in which exact spatial location is either unknown, uncertain or irrelevant, and can also prove powerful catalysts for establishing connections between heterogeneous data (Linked Open Data). Services that provide such conceptual frameworks can also provide useful additional information, such as alternative toponyms, coordinates and categorical information. Three panel sessions will be dedicated to applying these methods to Places, Periods and Events. A fourth session will open up these topics to discussion by all participants. 

twitter hash tag : #spacetimewg (archived here: http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/spacetimewg)

liveblog : http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/11/30/space-and-time-in-the-digital-humanities-workshop-hosted-by-nedimah-and-jisc-liveblog/

wiki : http://spacetimewg.pbworks.com

Attendees at First Workshop

Agenda

9.30am - Orientation and Introductions - Leif

Place

Chair: Shawn Day
10.00 : Humphrey Southall
10.20 : Simon Scheider
10.35 : Franco Niccolucci 
10.50 - 11.45 Place Panel

11.45 - 11.50 Coffee and Tea

Period

Chair : Jens 
11.50 - Ceri Binding
12.00 - Glauco Mantegari
12.10 - Jonathan Whitson-Cloud
12.20 -1 pm: Period Panel

1pm - 2pm  Lunch Break

Event
Chair : Eero
2.00 - Laura Spinsanti
2.10 - Oyvind Eide
2.20 - Ryan Shaw
2.30 - 3.00 Event Panel

3pm - 3.30 - Coffee and Tea

3.30 - 5:00 - Open Forum Discussion on Space Time
Chair: Jens Andresen

• Revolving Final Sentence Summary from each of the panelists
• Open Discussion involving all